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store datas about links in rendered HTML #191

Open vincent-peugnet opened 2 years ago

vincent-peugnet commented 2 years ago

This may seems a strange idea, but I've founded it usefull in different uses cases. For example, when storing notes and adding links of external websites, I would like to have a bit more info without having to click on links each time: like a preview.

The strategy would be to look for pages <head> at render time and include datas in <a> link. We could then imagine a JS script that would allow to show those infos as a popup like on Wikipedia. Or, I don't know if it is possible, but using CSS to add, for example, a flag according to a language.

This could also be used for internal links.

Data that I found interesting

Or other possibilities in open graph protocol

Activation in W

This type of rendering could be activated or not at ELEMENT inclusion like %MAIN?richlink=1%.

Way to store datas

What I would imagine is to use HTML custom data attributes. They seems to be accessible from CSS.

problems I see

This will slow down the rendering process a lot, especially for external links.

alternatives

I imagine that those tooltips could be loaded in a more lazy way, I mean, using only JS to request datas and create a popup on hover for example.

Avantages of this seems to be the fact that datas would be more up to date. Cons are the fact that this is way slower.

I have found a chrome extension that do this. This is interesting ! But this one is trying to do a full preview of a page instead of metadatas.

vincent-peugnet commented 2 years ago

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3711554

vincent-peugnet commented 1 year ago

This should also be used to store dead links